science writer

Recent Features

A little-known virus that causes cancer decades after infection has been nearly ignored since its cousin, HIV, came on the scene almost 40 years ago. My piece in Nature Medicine covers how researchers are rearing to do something about this virus that has now become a health crisis in some parts of the world.

As it becomes easier and cheaper to sequence entire genomes, families of children with rare diseases are finally getting the answers they’ve been hoping for. Learn more in my piece for The Scientist Magazine.

Read about some of the creative ways scientists are manipulating or bypassing the brain’s selective fortification, the blood-brain barrier, to get much-needed drugs to the brain in The Scientist Magazine.

In Nova Next, I describe the history of a little-known side effect of cancer radiation therapy that may just be the boost immunotherapy needs to finish off solid tumors. (Runner up for the 2017 AACR June L. Biedler Prize for Cancer Journalism)